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I get what you’re saying but I like that Lemmy has a left wing bias (with a dash of libertarians). If it was the dominant media site, I’d agree about the echo chamber risk but so much media (in the English speaking world, anyway) is under right wing ownership now. Having a handful of sites that are a refuge from it all is a feature for me, not a bug. It’s an escape from the echo chamber.
it currently feels exactly like pre-2014 reddit. in a good way
No, it absolutely does not. Lemmy has a LOT of groupthink, just a different type of groupthink than the norm.
Reddit pre 2014 was the wild fucking west. You'd have some girl posting about why she likes sticking goat intestines up her butt and the comments would be all "it's not my thing but I can see your point of view". People were selling heroin on a public forum. There was a sub called something like "fiftyfifty" where you click on a link and it's either a cute bunny or some dude getting beheaded, no blurring or censorship just full gruesome decapitation. The most popular sub was called "jailbait" for chrissake.
Like, kids today cannot comprehend how sanitised everything is. You are locked in a box. Lemmy is a different box than reddit is a different box than Instagram is a different box than Facebook is a different box than Twitter. You don't know what freedom is. You will never know. It's exhilarating and terrifying. But all you can do nowadays is pick a different box.
Exactly. Like I said
It's just a different echo chamber though.